He also gains a temporary collaborator in young transient Alice (Kelley Mack), though it’s one of many murky points in Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall’s script that we never figure out whether she or the sole other female character (played by Jennifer Jelsema) are actually connected to the central conspiracy or not. Woods), and additional figures played by Chris Sullivan, Richard Cotovsky and Justin Welborn. One of the first people he tracks down in this quest is a media studies professor (Steven Pringle), who has met his like before, and cautions him against “falling down a rabbit hole you can’t climb out of.” Nonetheless, James pushes on, despite this pursuit’s escalating negative impact on his employment, mental health and physical safety.Īmong fellow travelers met en route are a fellow retro-tech geek (Arif Yampolsky), a man apparently driven mad by this same wild goose chase (Michael B. James becomes obsessed with finding the supposed “Night Pirate” responsible for what another AV enthusiast calls the “creepiest unsolved mystery hack of all time” - particularly once he realizes they may be tied to the vanishing of several women, including Hannah.
He realizes this was one of two, possibly three such bizarre “broadcast intrusions” since 1987, which were investigated by the FCC and FBI without their perp ever being identified. But one night a random news-program tape is interrupted by a strange figure speaking unintelligibly while wearing a plastic mask and wig, something very like the disturbing dreams he’s had of late. Now, his sole regular human interaction is attending a support group for other people grieving long-missing loved ones.
It’s a solitary job that complements the loner lifestyle he had since his dancer wife Hannah disappeared three years ago.
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James (Shum) is an AV tech geek in 1999 Chicago, working the graveyard shift in a basement archive, logging old TV broadcast videos for posterity.
The SXSW-premiering feature will be a viable item for home format sales theatrical prospects are slimmer. chasing down a possible link between the titular phenomenon and his wife’s disappearance. As long as the promise outweighs the frustrating lack of payoff, however, it’s an intriguing and atmospheric puzzle, with “Glee” star Harry Shum Jr. It’s tricky to pull off the kind of cryptic mystery labyrinth that “ Broadcast Signal Intrusion” attempts, and Jacob Gentry’s film only works to a point - whatever point at which the viewer decides this thriller’s elusive menace is just too vague to generate sufficient urgency or suspense.
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